Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-12-07
Cornell Univeraity, at Ithaca, N. 7, res
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Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. 7, res
Gently sold q Tactot timber land In Wiscon-t
sin for sec, 600 81 B. ~
$s,.s a MICHIGAN. II 45. 81 s ss.S
New Haven was burned the other day. Loss,
SIC, 900; no insurance.
A recent collision ON the Lake Shore road
at Grosvenor resulted in the injury OF five
employees 81. 'sss
Charles simmonds, aged seventy -eight
years, Of Richmond, was found dead In his
yard recently, where he had fallen while
his wife was absent attending funeral
F Several Birmingham boys went ont
shooting recently, and one Of them, Bert
Collier, was asked to shoot q gun which
had been purposely overloaded The
weapon exploded, and Collier received In
juries, which would probably prove fatal
His companions deserted him, and it was
three hours before he was discovered
L K Shaw, . farmer near Romeo, sold
wheat and received 5000 the other day.
He did not reach home, and o search found
his horse and buggy hitched to fence near
piece Of woods and his dead body in the
woodA III y, : H. D. II
John Feeny was convicted at Detroit re-
Gently of cutting and carrying away timber
from the INDIAN reservation in Isabella
County.
Marshall hogs are suffering greatly from
the ravages Of hog cholera
The store Of George l. Clapp, at Glenn,
Ottawa County, was burned few days ago,
evidently thaving been fred by burg
lars, as the door of the safe had been
broken open. Loss, 81, 600.
Judge G. G. Fuller, of Big Rapids, brought
a SIC, 600 libel suit against the Herald Of
that place for alleged defamatory state
menta The case was heard recently and
was thrown out, 1t being decided there was
no cause for action
W. D. Robinson, shoe-dealer at Detroit,
doing business under the name of W. D.
Robinson !; Co., has failed for SOC, OOO
August Gunther, an employee of the Han
cock chemical works, undertook recently
to drive mil into scantling saturated
with nitro-glycerine The result was an
explosion which fatally hurt Gunther
John W. Brooks manager of the Detroit
Corset Company, in cleaning out his valise
recently threw ON the floor some poisonous
pills taken by him while suffering from neu-
ralgia After Mr.. Brooks left the house his
eghteen-months-o! child found and ate
the pills and died soon afterwards
Two fishermen named Nelson and Jewell
we're lost recently in storm near Cheboy-
gan
MINNESOTA.
David Morrell, a grain dealer at Winona
for twenty years, died the other night, aged
sixty-sx years.
Peter Barrett, who is charged with the
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neapolis, was taken to that city from
Omaha recently and safely lodged in jail
Hon. G. NJ. Ramsey, of Stephen, has gone
brother and sister-in-law, the Earl and
Lady Dalhousie.
It is feared that Minneapolis may suffer
from a water famine before the winter is
over because of lack of power to run the
pumps from which the city's supply is re-
ceived
The new Pilgrim Congregational Church
at Duluth, just inclosed, and on which
$2S, 900 had already been expended, caught
fire the other afternoon from a stove In use
to dry the plastering and was destroyed
Fire and water destroyed ST., 200 worth
of property on Nicollet avenue, in Minneap-
oils, the other day.
and Journal have consolidated, merging
the establishments into stock company, and
now appear as the Duluth herald-Jouruak
under the editorshp of C. A. Lounsbury.
A fire the other morning in Metropolitan
block, one of the finest in Duluth damaged
the building slightly while water damaged
dry goods stock of Freimuth. to the ex-
tent of nearly $40, 900 and contents of law
and, other Offices about So 600
Rev Perry Hoag, pastor of the Christian
Church at Winona died Of heart-disease in
stage-coach the other day between Coler
and Sterling, ILL.,
A. B. Shipley, treasurer of Faribault, was
found in his cellar recently with a bullet
hole in his head He had been sick fol
some time, and was the victim CT quee
Authorizations He was quite wealthy.
Jepps N. Jehson twenty three years old
fell from the tower of the windmill at the
water-tank in Lake Benton the other morn
ing, striking head first on q moving freight
train, and was killed.
The will Of the late Thomas A. Harriso
Of Minneapolis, gives to Hamline Unlversl-
ty the sum Of 500, 600 in cash.
DAKOTA.
The Farmers National Cooperative In
surance Company was organized at Plank
inton the other day, with capital Of 500,
OOO Over one-half of the stock was sub
scribed in that city and the remainder
throughout the Territory, with Codington
County in the lead, having $4,000
A fire few days ago at John Murphy's
place, three miles west of Altoona de-
stroyed his barn, outbuildings, hay and
granary, in which was stored $50 bushels
of wheat, $50 of oats and his household
gooda ...,. .s s...
: Whitewood, ten miles from Deadwood, lie
now the Black Hills terminus of the Chi
cago Il Northwestern railroad This short
ems the stage journey to q brief pleasure
drive over the mountains ..